Steel Dynasty - Chapter 320

[Chapter 320 Drawing a pie]

“Hahaha…”

A burst of laughter came from the office of the president of the Chamber of Commerce.

Many businessmen in the chamber of commerce cast curious glances in the direction of the sound.

This voice was familiar to many businessmen. It was the voice of King Mingming Qi, which made them excited.

King Qi rarely comes to the Chamber of Commerce, so the president’s office is always empty. Only Li Kaiyuan is busy here, handling everything.

Cao Zhengyang looked at Xiao Ming, who was laughing in confusion, in the office with a nameplate for consultation.

He now began to doubt whether he could complete the tasks assigned to him by his father.

“Why are you laughing, Your Highness?” Cao Zhengyang finally couldn’t help it.

Xiao Ming stopped smiling and said, “What I am laughing at is that you are really brave. If the King of Chu knows that you are standing in front of me and saying these words, your Cao family will be destroyed in just a moment. Do you really think that you are the richest in the world?” , The King of Chu dare not touch you? Wrong! These wealth are only temporarily kept by you, and they will eventually fall into the hands of the King of Chu. The fattened pig will eventually be killed

. His Highness also underestimated the Cao family too much. For the Cao family, they would never put eggs in a box. The Cao family’s property is spread all over the world. There will always be a place to take the Cao family. If the country of Chongqing cannot stay, there will always be Cao Cao. The only place where the family can stay is that the Cao family’s roots are in Dayu Country after all. If they can have a stable place, the Cao family is still willing to stay in Dayu Country.” Cao Zhengyang said loudly.

After a pause, Cao Zhengyang continued: “Your Highness, looking at the Great Yu Kingdom, the Cao family will naturally not say this to any prince. There is another reason why Cao came to Qingzhou this time, and that is because of the Cao family’s The merchant ship encountered His Highness’s fleet at sea. I wonder if His Highness knows Yue Yun? “

“What!” Xiao Ming stood up suddenly, with a dangerous aura on his body.

Zhao Long and Zhao Hu felt that Xiao Ming was angry, and immediately took out their swords and pointed them at Cao Zhengyang, ready to kill Cao Zhengyang in front of them at any time.

“Your Highness is so excited. It seems that Yue Yun is indeed His Highness’s man. It’s just a pity that the three warships were beaten into sieves. I’m afraid His Highness will lose no less than a million taels this time.” Cao Zhengyang said slowly.

Xiao Ming calmed down quickly. There had been no news from Yue Yun for three or four months. He had been worried, but he did not expect that he would eventually encounter an accident.

He asked calmly: “What do you want to say!”

Cao Zhengyang looked serious, saluted Xiao Ming again, and said: “Your Highness, the Cao family’s caravan is helping Yue Yun repair the damaged battleship. Your Highness will be able to see you in a month at the latest own fleet, this is the sincerity of the cooperation between the Cao family and His Highness. I wonder if His Highness is satisfied. “

“What does the Cao family want?” Xiao Ming asked with a sneer.

“His Highness’s fleet has proven His Highness’s strength, and this is what the Cao family needs. My father believes that His Highness will give the Cao family a different future. This is what the Cao family wants. Of course, if His Highness allows the Cao family to open a bank in Qingzhou , the Cao family would be more happy,” Cao Zhengyang said slowly.

Politics is about the exchange of interests. Xiao Ming is no longer Wuxia Amen now. “Is this the condition of your Cao family?”

“Yes, Your Highness, we learned that Your Highness has prepared to build a bank similar to a bank in Qingzhou, but now that His Highness comes There is a lack of money, and secondly there are too few people who understand this business, so the progress is very slow until now. If this matter is handed over to the Cao family, Cao will guarantee that within three months, banks will be established in every prefecture and county of His Highness.” Cao Zhengyang. said.

Xiao Ming hesitated. This Cao family is really a big talker. This bank is the financial industry of later generations. Who in modern times does not know the key to the financial industry. If they were natives of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, they would have been fooled by Cao Zhengyang.

But the Cao family made a mistake in targeting him. He finally understood why the Cao family was so anxious.

It turned out that the Cao family had a premonition of crisis because of their preparations to build a bank.

But now Yue Yun and the fleet are in the hands of the Cao family. According to Cao Zhengyang, without their help Yue Yun and the others would not be able to repair the warship and come back.

And now it seems that they have not told King Chu about this, they are asking him for a price.

If he does not have a suitable price, the Cao family may give up and no longer try to cooperate with him.

Living in modern times, Xiao Ming is very aware of the power of capital. Now the Cao family has obviously transcended the category of ordinary businessmen in Chongqing. In his opinion, the current Cao family is looking for a hotbed of capital.

That’s why he took the risk of contacting him.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Ming said: “It is impossible for me to give up Qingzhou Bank, but I will not prevent Cao Family Bank from opening a bank in my fiefdom. This is my bottom line.”

“His Highness is indeed an extremely shrewd person .

, His Highness’s idea is the same as my father’s guess, okay, we agree,” Cao Zhengyang said.

Xiao Ming snorted softly. This result was a win-win situation for him and the Cao family.

Originally, Xiao Ming wanted to monopolize the profits of the financial industry, but after careful consideration, this approach was not feasible in this era. If he wanted to develop rapidly, he would have to borrow capital to form his own interest group.

Only when businessmen get a steady stream of profits from him will they invest money in themselves.

It was in this binding of interests that the East India Company in the West grew.

So from now on, he will gradually build up interest groups around him, so that these interest groups will continue to provide him with capital for war.

For this reason, he can’t worry about whose fiefdom these merchants come from. As long as they can provide him with materials and money, he can use these people.

After all, in business, people take advantage of each other and stab each other with knives.

After Cao Zhengyang agreed to his conditions, Xiao Ming changed the subject again and proposed a bold plan. He said, “I have a more profitable business. I wonder if you are interested in it?”

“Your Highness, please tell me?”

“I am preparing to go north to attack the barbarians and regain the lost land in Youzhou. You may have heard that Your Majesty has promised to me that all the land acquired will belong to me. However, I am short of supplies and somewhat unable to do what I want, so I recently decided to ask the merchants We raise supplies and return them with profits from future wars. I wonder if your Cao family is interested. “

I don’t know what the profits from future wars are.”

“Land, barbarian livestock, horses, etc. “

Prisoners, trade routes to the barbarians, etc.” Xiao Ming began to draw a pie, “Think about how much land a place as big as the Sixteenth State of Yanyun will be conquered by this king. Once the barbarians are defeated, the barbarians’ slaves, the barbarians, and so on. The livestock and pastures are huge wealth. As long as you give me money, I am willing to be the pioneer.”

Cao Zhengyang was stunned, he thought, this King Qi really had a different reaction.

(End of chapter)